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Analytical Solution Of Microbes Interacting With Surfaces, Junyuan Li, Arezoo M. Ardekani
Analytical Solution Of Microbes Interacting With Surfaces, Junyuan Li, Arezoo M. Ardekani
The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium
Nowadays, there is a rising interest in studying the behavior of microbes and their interactions with flow and surfaces. In order to explore the velocity field, pressure and forces around the microbes, the solution of Stokes equations, which is called a Stokeslet, is used. This solution represents a singular velocity field due to a concentrated external force acting on fluid at a single point. This singularity could cause the expression of velocity not integrable. We use the Regularized Stokeslet Method and Method of Images to deal with this problem. The expression of force is replaced by a radially symmetric function, …